Simryn Gil
February 19 – April 2, 2026 | 1301SW, Melbourne
A presentation of artworks holding subtlety and deception, a unique dialect with a sentimentality for nostalgia and a pining for the present — where “the past reappears because it is a hidden present”. An exhibition oscillating, where isolation, emotion, solitude and silence sit within a subplot, one notwithstanding the surreal humor of societal extremity, the autobiographical and tender intimacy of everyday life.
Emotionally and atmospherically between Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and Monk by the Sea, with each painting’s protagonist being taken and supplanted into Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.